Gun Club Marsh, Jamestown Wildlife Area, Kansas. Image provided by Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks.
The Great Plains LCC identified several habitats as high priorities. These habitats, while not inclusive of all GPLCC fish, wildlife, and plants within the region, are important for a variety of reasons. The following list of habitats and priority wildlife species was developed largely from information in the Wildlife Action Plans of the state partners encompassed within the GPLCC boundary, as well as regional planning documents of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and The Nature Conservancy.
- Grasslands
Burrowing Owl, black-tailed prairie dog, American bison, American burying beetle, black-footed ferret, Mountain Plover, Ferruginous Hawk, Long-billed Curlew, Lesser Prairie-Chicken, Grasshopper Sparrow, Cassin’s Sparrow, Lark Bunting, Harris’ Sparrow, Prairie Falcon - Playa wetlands
Northern Pintail, Sandhill Crane, Least Sandpiper, Western Sandpiper, Long-billed Dowitchers - Non-playa wetlands
Whooping Crane, Snowy Plover - Saline lakes
Snowy Plover, Sandhill Crane, Wilson’s Phalarope, Least Sandpiper - Prairie rivers, streams and riparian corridors
Arkansas River shiner, Piping Plover, Interior Least Tern, Sandhill Crane, Whooping Crane, Bell’s Vireo, Arkansas darter, Topeka shiner, Pallid and Shovelnose sturgeon, paddlefish, Snowy Plover - Savannahs, shrub lands and sand dunes
Lesser Prairie-Chicken, sand dune lizard, blowout penstemon, American burying beetle